Reading Materials

Recent Additions

• The Future of the Commons Radical History Review Winter 2011: http://rhr.dukejournals.org/content/2011/109/101.full.pdf+html (Requires a subscription. Abstract available.)

General Background on Commons

• David Bollier, a one-pager on the commons, http://bollier.org/commons-short-and-sweet.
• On The Commons, Commons governance and social charters.pdf (Author?)
• Alexa Bradley, Julie Ristau 12 Commons Dispatches for These Times.docx
• Peter Barnes, Jonathan Rowe, and David Bollier, "The State of the Commons" - a 32-page public education introduction to the commons for general readers. The document is cast as an "annual report to commoners" -- the analogue of a corporate annual report -- that documents how the commoners' shared wealth is being managed and mismanaged, http://bollier.org/sites/default/files/State%20of%20the%20Commons.pdf.
• Silvia Federici, Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Commoner, http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=113
• On The Commons, Equity and the Commonsblog.pdf
• George Caffentzis, A Tale of Two Conferences: Globalization, the Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Question of the Commons, The Commoner, http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=96. (This essay draws an important distinction between a commons created to serve capitalist development and what might be thought of as the anti-capitalist commons).
• Silke Helfrich, Ranier Kuhlen, Wolfgang Sachs, and Christian Siefkes, German Green Party's foundation, https://commonsblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/gemeingueter.pdf.
• David Bollier, "This Land Is Our Land," a 45-minute video, produced by the Media Education Foundation of Northampton, Mass., a nonprofit that produces politically progressive films for the higher ed market. A streaming version of the film is available at http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=146
• David Bollier, "The Commons Rising" a companion public-education report that focuses on the many positive commons developments going on. This is now quite outdated, but it gives a nice sense of the range of constructive commons-based activity going on, http://bollier.org/sites/default/files/State%20of%20the%20Commons.pdf.
• David Bollier, a four-part online course on the commons will debut in a few weeks at the UN Institute for Training and Research website, (Link soon.)
• Leo Burke, "A Common Matter" from Kosmos Journal, Fall|Winter 2010, http://www.kosmosjournal.org/articles/a-common-matter.
• James B. Quilligan, "Interest Rates and Climate Change: Realigning our Incentives through the Power of the Commons" from Kosmos Journal, Fall|Winter 2010, http://www.kosmosjournal.org/articles/interest-rates-and-climate-change-realigning-our-incentives-through-the-power-of-the-commons.
• James B. Quilligan, "People Sharing Resources|Toward a New Multilateralism of the Global Commons" from Kosmos Journal, Fall|Winter 2009, http://www.kosmosjournal.org/articles/people-sharing-resources-toward-a-new-multilateralism-of-the-global-commons.
• George Pór, "Connecting Our Conversations|Becoming Wiser Together," from Kosmos Journal, Spring|Summer 2008, http://www.kosmosjournal.org/articles/connecting-our-conversations-becoming-wiser-together.

• George Pór, “How r’evolution carries itself forward by the working groups of Occupy” http://thefutureofoccupy.org/2012/02/04/how-revolution-carries-itself-forward-by-the-working-groups-of-occupy/
• Mark Jagdev, "Can Occupy occupy strategy?” from The Future of Occupy, February 2012 issue: Focus on Working Groups http://thefutureofoccupy.org/2012/02/05/can-occupy-occupy-strategy/
• Mary Beth Steisslinger, “Sage Advice for Occupy? from Nobel winner Elinor Ostrom”
  http://thefutureofoccupy.org/2011/12/12/sage-advice-for-occupy-from-nobel-winner-elinor-ostrom/

• "Notes from #Acampada Sol I: http://takethesquare.net/2011/07/08/notes-from-acampadasol-1/
• "How to Organize a Climate":
  

  How to organize a climate.doc
  

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• "The Art of Vanishing: The Crisis of Consensual Culture": http://www.barcelonametropolis.cat/en/page.asp?id=23&ui=419
  
  
• "Notes on The non Violence of The 15-M movement": http://takethesquare.net/2011/08/08/notes-on-the-non-violence-of-the-15-m-movement/
  
  
• "Lawrence of Arabia and The (Non) Battle of Sol": http://www.desrealitat.org/2011/09/lawrence-of-arabia-and-non-battle-of.html
• From "No to the War" to 15-M: Social Movements that are not Social Movements:
  

  AmadorSocialMovements.doc
  

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Background Materials on Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development

• Zero Draft UN negotiators draft outcome document
  People's Summit portal
  People's Summit Occupy the Earth Summit Initiative

• Dossier at YES! Magazine: http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/the-commons